http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp book two Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:45:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I checked out the art book for Disney's Mulan from the library the other week, mainly to study Hans Bacher and Chen-Yi Chang's concept art for the film, but the book has proved to be a fairly fun read. One section explains Disney's "dead parent syndrome": [Mulan's mother] creates a two-parent ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/82 I really like In Rainbows. It's my favorite Radiohead album since OK Computer, for sure, and that album is still one of my top five favorites of any band from all time. But In Rainbows kind of bothers me, too. It's irritating that the focus was so focused on the ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/80 Summer is still trying to pretend it's not over, but here in Chicago it has begun to feel like fall already. It's impossibly weird to realize that it's autumn, and I'm not going back to Brown like I still feel I should... I miss it. The days that I remember the ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/79 This is a test of whether I've got Lightbox 2 set up correctly, not a great example of image quality... these are all from my little moleskine sketchbook, but I took them with a handheld camera and spent an absolute minimum of time preparing the images, so enjoy the nice ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/77 suspense!!! http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/76 Now I recognize that this is pure speculation, as I've never actually met any of them, but I've heard that "normal people" have nightmares about fairly mundane stuff—wolves, scary sheep, so on and so forth. Why on earth do I have to have dreams about hard disk failure?! http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/75 OK, so I have a well-documented love-hate relationship with the folks over in the Modern Culture and Media department. I want to hate them, but deep down, within the icy, granite bowels of their darkest, most deliberately obfuscated souls, they have some good ideas. Case in point: this paper, on ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/74 Here's the link to my final project on YouTube, and here's an embedded version: Enjoy! http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/72 I woke up at 4pm on Sunday, and turned in the beast at 9AM this morning-- I think that means that of the past sixty-five hours, only six of them were spent sleeping. I can't pretend I've been working 100% constantly, but I'll be damned if it hasn't been close. ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/71 The first final renders from my animation final project are in! After a surprising turn of events last night, this project has gone from being my second-to-last project to being my final undergraduate project ever. Fairly momentous, though also somewhat daunting... all the more so because the deadline I am ... http://www.techhouse.org/~kadam/wp/archives/70